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Post-Election Despair

It’s been just one week since Trump won the Presidential election, catapulting many into despair, terrified of his campaign pledges to deport millions and roll back human rights, like making abortions illegal nationwide. Upon hearing [...]

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Moving Out of My Funk

I was in a week long funk brought on by the starvation in Gaza, procrastination over filing my taxes, and a stalled writing project.  As I sat brooding, a little voice whispered that I should visit the Portland Art Museum.  As an art lover and modest collector, I often find art museums restorative. Fresh out of other ideas, I obeyed that [...]

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Gardening Up To The End

GUEST POST by LISA SAVAGE Around where I live people grow food starting in earnest this time of the year. No matter what our religion or political persuasion, once the soil is warm and dry enough, we all of us poke in some seeds. Some years it rains so often that the seeds fail to germinate and instead rot in the ground. It’s not great [...]

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Then The Line Went Dead

GUEST POST by MICHAEL STEINMAN A self-confessed dinosaur, I have always liked telephone conversations, especially the old-fashioned kind: two friends, one (me) on a landline, perhaps drinking tea, leisurely describing events but more endearingly, feelings.  The telephone handset made possible the kinds of intimacy one might be shy of having [...]

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